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Edward Martin Emigrating Company

 Organization

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Josiah Rogerson autobiography and certificates

 File — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197225562617]
Identifier: MSS 3923
Scope and Contents

Collection includes a photocopy of an autobiography prepared by Josiah Rogerson, a short account of his experience in the Martin Handcart Company, citizenship papers, and two other certificates. The materials date from between 1841 and 1878.

Dates: 1841-1880

Ship passenger lists

 Collection — Folder 1: [Barcode: 31197232489572]
Identifier: MSS 568
Scope and Contents Photocopy of handwritten lists. One item is dated 30 June and presents the names of the passengers of the 'Horizon' that left from Liverpool, England, in 1856. The 856 entries include the names, occupations, and ages of the passangers and where they were born. Many of the passangers on the 'Horizon' were Mormon immigrants who migrated to Utah in the ill-fated Martin handcart company later that year. Also included are partial lists of passengers on the ships the 'James Wesmoth' and the...
Dates: 1856